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118 lines
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<title>Window Maker: News</title>
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<h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
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<p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
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<p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2006, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
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also a few new features. Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, so most of the bug fixes are related to odd
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situations. One random example is the fix which avoids a segfault when creating more than 81
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workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Another bug-fix of peculiar nature is this <a href=
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"http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">one</a>, which happened once every
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49 days -- more precisely 2^32 milliseconds.</p>
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<p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
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output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
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<pre>
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[mafra@Pilar:wmaker.git]$ git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
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592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
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[mafra@Pilar:wmaker.git]$ git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
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566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
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</pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
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"http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
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sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included
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is the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
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<a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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<h2>New features and highlights</h2>
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<p>This list is really very incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to what are the new features in
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this release. For a bit more of details see the NEWS file included in the sources, although it also misses a lot of
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things. For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the complete source of
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information.</p>
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<p>Left/right window maximization, making them occupy the left/right area of the screen</p>
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</li>
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<p>Maximus (a.k.a tiled) maximization. Maximizes windows such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping
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other windows</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>New mouse-resizing functionality. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel
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(CTRL+Wheel)</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>History and TAB completion in the run dialog</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p> Preliminary XRandR support (needs a bit more work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default.
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Use --enable-xrandr if you want to test it).</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>A WPrefs option to make icons bounce when their respective applications want attention</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>New applications (wmgenmenu and wmmenugen) to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications
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you have on your $PATH</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Automatic detection of configuration changes. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism have their configuration changes
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detected automatically without polling, reducing the number of CPU wakeups.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Dockapps can now receive special treatment by setting their WM_CLASS to "DockApp"</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
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control whether or not Window Maker should do automatic workspace switching to satisfy a focus request from a
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window located in another workspace.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p> (For developers). The addition of a debian/ folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the
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git sources.</p>
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</ul>
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<p><br />
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<img src="v0_95_1.png" alt="Info v0.95.1" width="382" height="257" /></p>
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